Jessica Curry
| Jessica Curry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 43–44) Liverpool, England |
| Residence | Brighton, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Spouse(s) | Dan Pinchbeck |
| Website | www |
Jessica Curry (born 1973) is an English composer, radio presenter and former co-head of the British video game development studio The Chinese Room. She won a BAFTA award in 2016 for her score for the video game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
Curry earned B.A.(Hons) English Literature and Language at University College London, graduating in 1994. Four years later, she obtained a Postgraduate diploma in Screen Music at the National Film and Television School.
When Dan Pinchbeck was developing his experimental video game Dear Esther he turned to his wife Curry to write a score. Thus Curry became the co-founder of The Chinese Room game studio.
Following the success of that game, The Chinese Room went on to develop Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs which Curry describes as her first "journey into interactivity" as her score had been "shoehorned" into Dear Esther.
While Amnesia was in production, The Chinese Room received an approach from Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica Studio to develop an exclusive game for them. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, was originally imagined as a PC release but became a Sony exclusive. Curry describes Rapture as "the first time I would say that I wrote a truly interactive score".
In October 2015 Curry announced via her blog on The Chinese Room's website that she was leaving her role with the studio. She stated that her decision was based on various factors including a degenerative condition, the stress that she felt from the studio’s relationship with a commercial publisher and her treatment as a female in the game industry.
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